This is a blog Diary for an aging Goth, someone who is into the dark side of things. This Diary is about how I grew up

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Of Christopher Lee and Heavy Metal Carols and an "Addams Family" loss~~~~

Hello Darklings,

I've been outside and with Brian's help we've been making sure things are secure and won't get blown away.

On the Christmas lights well we'll just have to chance it, there has been talk by our weather man of very strong winds up to 60 miles an hour coming with the next storm front. That will make for a miserable commute.

Of course those protesters who blocked the 80 Freeway last night on the going home commute didn't do any good nor laying down on the rail road tracks as a train was approaching, fortunately the Engineer was going slow enough that he could stop before anyone got hurt, but blocking the railroad right of way is a Federal Offence as I understand it, and although the California Hywy Patrol has no objections to a peaceful demonstration, doing it on a high speed freeway endangers them as well as the drivers, being hit by a car or truck is equal to falling off a 5 story building.

These people are not using any common sense and while the free way was jammed up a woman went into labor, a man had a heart attack and another man had a stroke, with that I do not consider those demonstrations as being peaceful but life endangering. No just no common sense at all. But then Berkeley has never been the city of common sense, not from my personal experience.

But now onto a holiday treat----

Christopher Lee now 92 years old has just released a Heavy Metal Christmas album titled " Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing" he says at his age every day is a blessing and a joy and he's doing it by doing things he loves doing. I think I'm going to buy a copy just for the fun of it, because that is what an Elder Goth would do.

I mean think of it Darklings, the Grand old man of Gothicness, and frightening films, doing Heavy Metal Christmas Carols? How perfectly Dark! Now if he would just record the 13 days of Halloween it would be perfect!

But on the sad side I've just found out that we lost Ken Weatherwax who played "Pugsley" of the "Addams Family" T.V. series,
I'm reproducing the article here I was surprised to discover who he was related to as well......

The Hollywood Reporter December 7, 2014 9:00 PM

Ken Weatherwax, Who Played Pugsley on TV’s 'Addams Family,'
Dies at 59 (Report)

Ken Weatherwax, who played the pudgy son Pugsley on the
1960s ABC sitcom The Addams Family, has died. He was 59.

Weatherwax died Sunday from a heart attack, his niece,
Shanyn Vieira, announced on Facebook. Later, TMZ reported that he died in his
California home and that there will be two funerals, one for the family and one
for the fans.

Weatherwax starred as Pugsley, the reserved, insect-eating
son of Gomez and Morticia Addams (John Astin and Carolyn Jones) and the brother
of Wednesday Addams (Lisa Loring), on the campy Filmways Television sitcom.

Based on the New Yorker comic strip by cartoonist Charles
Addams, The Addams Family spent just two seasons (1964-66) on ABC but aired for
years in syndication. It also spawned a pair of Barry Sonnenfeld movies in the
1990s that had Jimmy Workman playing Pugsley.

A native of Los Angeles, Weatherwax also appeared in
toothpaste commercials and on a 1964 episode of Wagon Train. After The Addams
Family ended, he tried out for other roles but didn’t land anything, saying he
was a victim of typecasting, he told Bill O’Reilly in a 2008 interview.

He also said kids in school hassled him for playing a
character named Pugsley.

“Frankly, I didn’t deal with it very well,” he told
O’Reilly. “I was kicked out of like six or seven schools and went into the
service [the Army] at the age of 17. I did kind of draw a lot of fire from
that.”

Later, he played Pugsley Sr. on a 1977 Halloween Addams
Family movie for NBC and reportedly worked as a grip and set builder in
Hollywood.

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I am an aging Goth, this blog is a diary about how I grew up as an aging goth in the late 1950's, 60's and 70's before being Goth became Kool or whatever it's called now. I'm in my 60's having been born when UFO's crashed into Roswell, New Mexico. If that isn't auspiscious then I don't know what is. I'm going to post my thoughts about a style of Goth that I don't see around here, what I call the Art Deco, Retro aka Corporate Goth. It's not going to be difinitive because I'll be talking about it from an Elderly point of view.
I'll also be posting about what is currently happening in my life, my interest's and strange things.
This blog is not going to be politically correct, I'll get mad and fed up with things, I simply will not put up with foolishness. So if you don't like what I say, that's too bad, you've been warned.